>>>Of course it is the 'best system' and nice 'way of life'
>>>(As long as you get some third party/country sucker to chip inn for the bills) But what do you do when (like in every other Ponzy scheme) you run out of suckers ?
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>>>Of course, there is also the alternate point of view that was well stated by Maggie Thatcher:
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>>>The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
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>>>There is also this quote from the parable of The Grand Inquisitor from Chapter 5 of The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky):
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>>>In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet, and say to us, "Make us your slaves, but feed us."
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>>Your admiration of Thatcher defines you.
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>>The best thing about Thatcher was that she left the Tories unelectable for a decade.
>>She was also largely responsible for the destruction of UK manufacturing and making the UK a centre for casino banking.
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>>I look forward to the day the Thatcher era is re examined and defined for what it was . An economic disaster. The wholesale destruction of industry with no clear plan about what was to replace it.
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>I don't claim to be an expert on this or in fact on anything related to economic issues ( unlike those in and out of government who claim to be but aren't ) but I have read a lot about Mrs. Thatcher both pro and con. One of the most interesting was by Claire Berlinski, a rather fascinating woman in her own write. ( yes, I know you can dismiss her by characterizing her as a right wing ideolog of some stripe - as opposed to the objective editorial staff of the Guardian or the Daily Worker <g> ) but I would be more interested in rebuttal to her salient points. In any case, the book is a good read, as is her fiction and her book on Europe.
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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwy5meym-PY

I'll take a look at that later ..

One point about the Tories and their economic reform.
All European economies where changing radically in that period, none of them as brutally as was done under Thatcher.

Change in the UK economy was already underway before the Tories came in and could have been directed down a better path . So did we get a mixed sustainable economy with banks working with business to create employment "Did we f___k" as they say.

In my old home town there used to be two light engineering firms Lister Petter (makers of marine Diesel engines) and Mawdsleys again light engineering. Plus a furniture manufacturers Bymacks.

None of those exist any more

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